The 2010 IMCI-MLMI joint meeting will be held in
Beijing, China.
See you there!

The Eleventh International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces and the
Sixth Workshop on Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction was held
jointly at the MIT Media Lab, widely known for its innovative
spirit. Organized in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, ICMI-MLMI 09 provided
an excellent setting for brainstorming and sharing the latest advances in
multimodal interaction, systems and methods in an inspired setting of a
city, known as one of the top historical, technological and scientific
centers of the US.

Outstanding Paper Prizes

The outstanding paper awards highlight work that is exemplary. These are
the papers that should serve as a model for how to perform and how to
publish good research in multimodal interaction. They are the examples for
the community to follow.

Outstanding Student Paper

Sponsored by Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories to specifically
highlight the work of the students in our community, the title of 2009
ICMI-MLMI Outstanding Student Paper was bestowed on:

Agreement Detection in Multiparty Conversation by Sebastian
Germesin of DKFI and Theresa Wilson of the University of Edinburgh.

Outstanding Papers

Sponsored by Google, the title of 2009 ICMI-MLMI Outstanding Paper was
shared this year by: two papers

Multimodal Floor Control Shift Detection by Lei Chen of Purdue
University and Mary P. Harper of the University of Maryland.

Dialog in the Open World: Platform and Applications by Dan
Bohus and Eric Horvitz of Microsoft Research